A triumph of comedy borne out of tragedy, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth’s Calendar Girls is the perfect remedy to the dark winter nights approaching.

The 44 days Brian Clough took charge of Leeds United in 1974 were a spectacular failure, immortalised in a best-selling book by David Peace and a blockbuster film by Tom Hooper.

Bringing Beatlemania back to Manchester for a few days only, Let It Be began its eight-show run at the Opera House last night.

Mahalia played a sold-out gig in Gorilla on Wednesday – and what a show it was!

Like a kind of LGBT time-warping Howard’s End, The Pride shows how relationships, sex, self-worth and fate are intricately entwined with the society and period we live in.

At the start of a career-high breakthrough tour, it is natural for an artist to have butterflies in their stomach.

Tom Grennan had the sold-out Manchester Academy belting out hits from his debut album Lighting Matches in an electric gig on Friday.

Tom Walker brought his eclectic mix of rock, soul and pop to a sold out O2 Ritz in what was a huge hometown gig.

Based on the edge of the Northern Quarter, Ciaooo Pizzeria prides itself on serving traditional Neopolitan sourdough pizzas.

There is an inscription on the main staircase at the Royal Northern College of Music that reads: “Does originality actually exist or do we all simply build from what we have seen and heard?”

The National Theatre’s innovative adaptation of Macbeth successfully is reimagining a Shakespeare classic at The Lowry.